Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

I was perusing Social Source Commons (something I don’t do nearly often enough,) and catching up on the SSC blog , and I thought it might be worth sharing with this audience what tools I use for basic consulting workflow. If you want to look at my Social Source Commons toolbox, it’s here. It’s a great tool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

However, while we know how important data is, it can be difficult to organize, manage, and extract the information needed without the proper tools and resources. DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. That’s where Declarative Lookup Rollup Summaries (DLRS) comes in.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Connected Civil Society: Applying machine learning and computer vision to document human rights violations and promote accountability in Syria in collaboration with the UN. Ensured that thousands of human rights activists could securely document human rights abuses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We were using Intervals for a while, which is really a fabulous tool if you do a lot of hourly consulting. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We were using Intervals for a while, which is really a fabulous tool if you do a lot of hourly consulting. All tools have their strengths and weaknesses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. How busy is it?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Take a look at our Demo, recent Dreamforce session , User Guide , and Release Documentation. Recurring giving programs are an effective tool for keeping donors engaged.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

How can they take advantage of these new web-based distribution tools without going broke? Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. It's the same problem the record labels are facing.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

Produce quality, scalable, documented, maintainable code: ensure the acceptance criteria passes before you are finished. You may be writing components or features from scratch, refactoring code, adding incremental improvements, writing and maintaining technical documentation, writing tests, and fixing bugs.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

Communication Tools You need to keep in regular contact with your members so they’ll stay engaged with your organization. Your association management software should make that easy with tools for email management, event reminders, workflow, registrations, and member contacts. Price Wild Apricot bases its pricing on contacts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations, Martus enables human rights defenders on the front lines of fighting abuse to stay safe and protects the identities of those who would face violence and repression for telling their stories.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters. read more ).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

number of web-based tools that enable team members to coordinate and. project leaders and team members with the tools they need, from Gantt charts to web conferencing, to coordinate the various pieces of the puzzle. It integrates across Google Apps , a nice bonus for users who are already using Google Mail, Documents.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

ASU found that a significant population of its community were already using Slack, making it an ideal choice for a new collaboration tool. The university now uses the collaboration tool to host classroom discussions, develop new courses, and support students — both on campus and online.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2014

In his January 17, 2014 speech on NSA reforms , President Obama stated: "As the nation that developed the Internet, the world expects us to ensure that the digital revolution works as a tool for individual empowerment, not government control."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 21, 2010

Mule ESB – Open Source ESB Community w. Documentation | Mule ESB Community – an interesting and intriguing data integration tool built on the Java stack. SoqlXplorer – a Mac OS X tool for browsing Salesforce.com data.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) tools to help your site pages rank on search engine results pages. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Plus, they both have a strong user support community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. NpTech Google Talk Google Presentations: Tell a Story Together: Network Presentations lets us know about a relatively new feature in Google documents called Google Presentations. My favorite phrase is "The code isn???t

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases. Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. eCommerce sites. That’s what’s true right at this moment.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. Ushahidi's tools help others act for transparency, justice, crisis response, and human rights.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Some, especially those that are very content/document heavy, have become familiar with Document Management Systems (DMS). There are both proprietary and open source LMS. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. You can log in using OpenID.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. Our mandate, broadly speaking, was to engage in “blue-sky dreaming” and learn from our shared experiences to make Martus a more robust tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

There is a lot of information there on how to get going, including how to get your document into the right format. It depends on your platform, your budget, and your technology skillset: epub-tools : an open source, command line set of tools for conversion to epub format. Mobipocket Reader (Mobi – nonDRM).

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are wonderful for working on a document written in a markup language, but what if you don’t know anything about CSS? Use the Inspect Element Tool to customize your site and have the ability to edit HTML or JavaScript for any webpage while viewing your changes in real time.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

It is open source, after all. Yes, it is open source, and I applaud Google for releasing open source software. I won’t be downloading it, or trying it, even when they release Mac or Linux versions. Why so curmudgeonly you ask? And it has some cool features. I am going to have to stop using Chrome.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

That work includes updates and upgrades to Martus , our free, open source software that enables human rights fieldworkers to securely document abuse that is occurring in dangerous environments. Benetech will of course continue the software and technology development that is the primary focus of our Human Rights Program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 2, 2009

But I don’t think that a tool like this is going to serve very many nonprofits for very long, given its limitations. Of course, people like me, who make our living building websites, and helping facilitate the web presences of organizations, look askance at tools like this, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. How Big Tech Harms Social Justice and Equity For many nonprofits, social media platforms are vital communication tools with which to organize people and provide them with services and information.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Drupal Commons (an open-source variant of Drupal from our friends at Acquia ) is a versatile and complete full-service community platform. It approximates the “out of the box” functionality of Jive, and integrates a significant suite of tools. Drupal Commons. It is also quite expensive. SocialText.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The advantage of the technology sector is that even if it is rudimentary or preliminary functionality, you can expose a new idea/tool/app/platform to the community from the very beginning, getting their feedback and support. We can also look at the why to understand the ecosystem for new or complimentary tools.

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